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- 8 June 2022
Escaping a paper bag
When machine learning and AI specialist, Fran Buontempo, approached nor(DEV):22 with her conference speech title: ‘Coding your way out of a paper bag,’ we were puzzled. Was this some esoteric philosophical thesis, or would the keynote speech really explain how to code out of a pa...
- 31 May 2022
Migrating toilets
Developer at The Guardian and open source aficionado, Oliver Barnwell, has invested a fair amount of time in a unique project, the Great British Toilet Map. Billed as ‘the largest database of publicly accessible toilets’ in the UK - no one need ever get caught short again. Lookin...
- 29 May 2022
Make The Dead Fish Swim - Test Driven Golang
Today we are going to take a look at solving "Make The Dead Fish Swim" - A Codewars challenge ranked '6 kyu' and we are going to do it using Test Driven Development. First of all, let us look at the challenge we are going to tackle: Write a simple parser that will parse and run D...
- 27 May 2022
Driving culture change
When Ben Frost first joined Bourne Leisure as Head of Product, he soon realised that getting users’ opinions was paramount. Bourne are the owners of Haven Holidays. Here he explains how he implemented a system that involved both users and devs. First discoveries Coming from the T...
- 23 May 2022
Product Hunt Kitty comes to Norwich!
Norwich startup SupaPass launches on Product Hunt today, so this Kitty doesn’t need to lift a paw! Hey, I’m the Product Hunt Kitty. You may recognise me from the Golden Kitty Awards, won by innovators like Elon Musk. I love prowling around hunting tech products and mice, and oth...
- 20 May 2022
Talking Tech Educators
Tech investor, Akcela founder and Conference sponsor, James Adams, is rapidly gaining an awesome reputation on the Norwich tech scene. We talked to James about Akcela’s latest startup, Tech Educators. Norwich has a lot of people with great ideas in terms of building a business bu...
- 18 May 2022
Web Scraping static web pages in .Net Core
OverviewI was talking to a developer friend the other day about starting a little side project where you could keep track of the product prices on supermarket websites and trend them over time. This would allow a user to see what’s increasing in price at any given moment. Unfortu...
- 17 May 2022
YakBit - making inclusion in the workplace matter
Educator Mary-Jo Hill explains how YakBit can revolutionise workplace inclusion ahead of her conference speech. Having taught in education for 25 years and worked as an advisor, and then later as a leadership coach. Mary-Jo realised that many in the classroom have difficulty in h...
- 15 May 2022
My personal surprises when learning to code.
Having got into coding recently there have certainly been some surprises for me. Some of it had stemmed from how the code works Vs how I expected it to work. Some things seem counterintuitive until I dive and delve further into the why as well as the what and then it makes sense....
- 13 May 2022
How smart phones have made the web dumb.
How smart phones have made the web dumb. Is it just me or has the modern web become, kind of boring? I have been fortunate enough to see the web evolve from its early days of finding it's feet with the public to the behemoth it is today. Over time it feels like we have gone full ...